8. Making the “Nice Little Books”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Abbreviations and Acronyms xvii
6. Introduction: Books on the Normandy Beaches 1
7. Part I: CULTIVATING NEW MARKETS
8. 1. Modernizing U.S. Book Publishing 11
9. 2. War Changes Everything—Even Books 19
10. Part II: BOOKS AS “WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS”
11. 3. Publishers Organize for War and Plan for Peace 43
12. 4. “Books Are the Most Enduring Propaganda of All” 68
13. 5. Seeking “an Inside Track to the World’s Bookshelves” 82
14. 6. “Everyone but the Janitor” Selected the Books 94
15. 7. Books to Pacify and Reeducate the Enemy 109
16. 8. Making the “Nice Little Books” 131
17. Part III: U.S. CULTURAL POWER ABROAD
18. 9. Liberating Europe with Books 151
19. 10. The Rise and Fall of the United States International Book Association 178
20. 11. The Empire Strikes Back 198
21. 12. Books for Occupied Germany and Japan 225
22. Epilogue: American Books Abroad after 1948 257
23. Appendix A. Overseas and Transatlantic Editions 269
24. Appendix B. Titles in the Bücherreihe Neue Welt Series 275
25. Notes 277
26. Bibliography 313
27. Index 321